[spam][ot][rambling][crazy] Building a Spaceship Out Of Something Doubly Infeasible: was Weak and Flimsy
Let's consider whether we might build a spaceship out of _water_. Not only will it be made out of water, it will be built and launched _underwater_.
I'm imagining first considering a pressure chamber made of ice, where the ice is sustained via a freezer, an obscure fractal shard arrangement, or by mixing with an insulating substrate. The biggest question that arises to me at first is how physically possible it would be to make an ice chamber that can hold an unbelievably high volume * pressure content of steam without breaking.
I'm thinking that you could reduce the volume that needed to be held by using a fractal arrangement of smaller ice chambers. This could allow planning avenues to consider simpler chamber structures to start with.
I'm so excited to visit the moon in a community spaceship! I think the first thing to do when on the workgroup for water material feasibility, would be to discern breaking pressures of ice.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021134128038 The mechanical properties of ice and snow are reviewed. The tensile strength of ice varies from 0.7–3.1 MPa and the compressive strength varies from 5–25 MPa over the temperature range −10°C to −20°C. The ice compressive strength increases with decreasing temperature and increasing strain rate, but ice tensile strength is relatively insensitive to these variables. The tensile strength of ice decreases with increasing ice grain size. The strength of ice decreases with increasing volume, and the estimated Weibull modulus is 5. The fracture toughness of ice is in the range of 50–150 kPa m1/2 and the fracture-initiating flaw size is similar to the grain size. Ice-soil composite mixtures are both stronger and tougher than ice alone. Snow is a open cellular form of ice. Both the strength and fracture toughness of snow are substantially lower than those of ice. Fracture-initiating flaw sizes in snow appear to correlate to the snow cell size.
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